“We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade, the presence of God.”
Quotes for When You Need Peace · Page 24
Serene words to slow down your world and bring you back to stillness.
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“We are waiting for the long-promised invasion. So are the fishes.”
“The new fire is laid, but the particular kind of match is missing.”
“Taxes are an evil—a necessary evil, but still an evil, and the fewer of them we have the better.”
“The wars of peoples will be more terrible than those of kings.”
“Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which will grow up ten years into domestic hatred.”
“If you make the same guess often enough it ceases to be a guess and becomes a Scientific Fact.”
“Prayer is not a machine. It is not magic. It is not advice offered to God.”
“Idleness and Pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments.”
“Most People dislike Vanity in others whatever Share they have of it themselves.”
“I think all the heretics I have known have been virtuous men.”
“He stood up and looked at me even as the seasons might look down upon the field, and He smiled.”
“I was taken by His voice and His gestures, not by the substance of His speech.”
“The absurd does not liberate; it binds. It does not authorize all actions.”
“Wise men don't need to prove their point; men who need to prove their point aren't wise.”
“The Master has no possessions. The more he does for others, the happier he is.”
“Truthful words are not fancy; fancy words are not truthful.”
“The good are not argumentative; the argumentative are not quite good.”
“The Tao of heaven benefits all beings without harming anyone.”